Saw an unusual GP-100 on TV

[Kestrel]

Saw Bob Mundon on TV doing some high-speed point shooting. He was using different handguns and one of them was a blued Ruger DA revolver. He said it was .38 special (could have been .357 and he just loaded .38s). It looked to have had a 4" barrel, adjustable sights and a HALF lug (short lug) barrel. I've never seen a short lugged 4", with adjustable sights.

Was it a special run or have I been missing something? (Ruger's web site search engine is down tonight...)

I liked the looks of it.

Steve

 

[Majic]

Could it have been a Security Six?

 

[Jim March]

There were factory GPs done up that way.

It used to be regular production.

 

[Shane]

^That sounds like a useful gun. I tend to prefer the short lug modles.

 

[Jim March]

I think it still might be standard on the 4" fixed-sight.

The half-lug 4" and now 6" have been discontinued. This is a shame, esp. in the 6" - that model handled like a 4" but has 6" ballistics of course.

Then again, a bit o' work with a belt grinder and you can do up your own plus deal with that silly novel on the barrel once and for all .

 

[JohnK]

If it was the same episode of American Shooter I saw it was a Security Six, not a GP100. Nice guns, I wish Ruger would start making them again.

 

[JohnKSa]

I saw that demonstration--I can't say that I looked at the revolver very carefully, but my impression was that it was a Security Six as well...